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Gerakan Youth lauds language move

PETALING JAYA: Gerakan Youth welcomes the Government’s decision to allow students who started studying Mathematics and Science in English to continue doing so until the end of their secondary education.

“The Government had considered the students’ interests – allowing them to learn the two subjects without confusion or fear of which language to use,” said its secretary-general Dr Dominic Lau.

The interests of the students must always be of paramount consideration when changes are made to the education module, he added.

Dr Lau also suggested that the Education Ministry use original English scientific and mathematical terms and not “awkward translations” at secondary school level as it would result in inaccurate connotations and pose problems to the students when they pursued their higher education